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Not my best day today. I decided on a bit of a whim yesterday that I was going to take a trip to Mt Fuji. I booked a hotel online at the last minute just before I fell asleep, didn't book any train tickets, didn't look at the weather forecast, and then got up this morning and started the trek to Kawaguchiko, one of the towns in the foothills of the mountain with reputedly excellent mountain views over a lake. Can you foresee any problems that may have ...

... it's real crowded. Quite a horrible thought, isn't it? Luckily it's a little less busy this Monday but I do see some faces bumped against the windows...haha. After 9 am rush hour finishes so I'm able to sit again and enjoy the view. After some delays and two wrong trains I finally arrived in Kyoto after 16 hours of traveling... But look at those stunning pictures and ...

... 80 degrees and then steamed at 100 degrees. The eggs will give you good health and fertility. I couldn’t stomach a black egg with the sulphur smell in the air and yesterday’s dinner still stretching my stomach. However, I did try the black egg soft serve that actually was quite nice.

Back at the hotel our room had an open air onsen spa that we enjoyed while drinking Gin and Tonic. The ...

Here the hot springs, erupting geysers and bubbling pools of boiling mud dominate a fascinating landscape. We take the Hakone rope way from Sounzan down to Togendai on lake Ashinoko. We take a boat journey around the lake which is a water filled volcanic crater with a circumference of 18K. We are now making our way to Tokyo by ...

... see Mount Fuji in the distance but the weather had closed in further at this point so no such luck. We did have a nice boat ride through the heart of Hakone though and we managed to see a couple of Torii gates on the banks amongst the colourful autumn foliage. The coach then took us back to the hotel at the end of what was quite a disappointing day. I expect it would have been beautiful under different circumstances but today the odds were certainly not in our ...